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steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Dead Reckoning posted:

Also, what do you feel is appropriate to say to someone after you shoot them, if an apology will be construed as an admission of wrongdoing?

Best possible statement by a dirtbag cop? "I forfeit my right to a final meal, I do not want to be a greater burden on the people of the Socialist American Caliphte than I already am."

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Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


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Morbid Hound

Trabisnikof posted:

That's because that's the standard they're told is the law. Sure if we could get jury nullification going that's one thing, but you'll get kicked from a jury if they think you might nullify.




With an instruction like that, it is easy to see how so many juries acquit, especially when the prosecution isn't working too hard.

You can make a decent argument that the real issue is that cops are getting the actual standard of "reasonable doubt" that everyone else should be getting, but making that argument entails casting so much doubt on the judicial system as a whole that it's impracticable. We'd have to admit that the judicial system is really bad at things and that there is far more doubt in even the simplest convictions than most people are willing to accept.

I think that argument fails though because there are plenty of cases where cops are not convicted even when there is absolutely no doubt at all (see: the murder of Walter Scott, shot in the back while running away, on video). It's not about doubt, it's about racism and bias towards authority figures. A certain percentage of the American public believes cops should be murderers and is will vote to that effect when on juries.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011
So I see that there isn't actually anything a police officer might reasonably say after a potentially justified use of deadly force that y'all wouldn't consider "infuriating."

Trabisnikof posted:

That's because that's the standard they're told is the law. Sure if we could get jury nullification going that's one thing, but you'll get kicked from a jury if they think you might nullify.
I don't think voting to convict someone who has committed no crime because you think what they did ought to be illegal is what people typically mean by "jury nullification."

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.

Dead Reckoning posted:

This is not true. Police are allowed to use deadly force based on an objectively reasonable perception of a threat of death, or serious bodily injury. Scared has nothing to do with it, and the fear must be rational. The fact that you keep spreading false information like this makes having these discussions much harder.

Literally anyone can watch the execution of Daniel Shaver by a non-scared cop who plays a deadly game of "Simon Says" with him until he fucks up and dies and know that this isn't true.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Dead Reckoning posted:

So I see that there isn't actually anything a police officer might reasonably say after a potentially justified use of deadly force that y'all wouldn't consider "infuriating."

The only thing a cop should be saying after murdering somebody (i.e. "potentially justified use of deadly force", in the Nazi vocabulary) is a Hail Mary in the execution chamber.

This is a categorical statement, there is no possible compromise.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

Instant Sunrise posted:

yeah those police were totally justified in beating up a diabetic, slamming him on the hood of his car, and denying him orange juice and any necessary medical intervention.

and it definitely should have set a precedent for any future use of force cases.

Remember that time they shot the black guy trying to protect an autistic man, when the black guy was on his back with his hands up begging for their lives?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Harold Fjord
Jan 3, 2004

quote:

Scared has nothing to do with it, and the fear must be rational.
:thunk:

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

A certain percentage of the American public believes cops should be murderers and is will vote to that effect when on juries.
Yeah, this is actually a really huge problem, but I can't see a way of fixing it without abolishing the jury system, either in law or in practice.

"I was scared" is not a statement of rational belief, "I feared that the other person was about to kill me based on X, Y, and Z" is.

Dead Reckoning fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Jan 30, 2018

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Dead Reckoning posted:

This is not true. Police are allowed to use deadly force based on an objectively reasonable perception of a threat of death, or serious bodily injury. Scared has nothing to do with it, and the fear must be rational.

Oh well that's all right then, now I feel much bet—
*is drowned out by the sound of years of you insisting how it's oh-so-rational to pull up and immediately open fire on a child sitting in a park, or fire blindly into the dark at a bump in the night, or shoot people lying on the ground with their hands in the air, or fire into a crowd of people, or into the back of a fleeing man, or at a man shopping for a gun in a store that sells guns in an open carry state, or give nickel rides which are necessary to protect blue lives because [ERROR:file missing], and every other absurd egregious trigger-happy circumstance*

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat

Dead Reckoning posted:

Yeah, this is actually a really huge problem, but I can't see a way of fixing it without abolishing the jury system, either in law or in practice.

Well, that's fortunate because the common law system is a backwards travesty.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.
Functionally, we live in a society where the cops can kill you or your pets for any reason at any time and there's nothing you can do about it. The DA will find 12 bootlickers to let them off and that's that...if there's even a trial.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

lol see all DR can do is get indignant I said the cops were scared rather than saying the cops "claimed to have a rational fear for their life for a split second"

its all about :decorum: when describing how we let killer cops keep killing

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
Remember that time they murdered a legal gun owner sitting in front of his child, and his girlfriend live-streamed the aftermath, and the NRA didn’t say a drat thing.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember when they murdered an elementary school kid because he had a toy gun? No warnings, no attempt to deescalate.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


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Morbid Hound

Dead Reckoning posted:

So I see that there isn't actually anything a police officer might reasonably say after a potentially justified use of deadly force that y'all wouldn't consider "infuriating."

"Hello 911 I need an ambulance" springs to mind

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
Remember that time that SWAT taped themselves executing a man in a hallway who was complying and begging?

gently caress off DR.

Instant Sunrise
Apr 12, 2007


The manger babies don't have feelings. You said it yourself.

Lightning Knight posted:

Remember that time they murdered a legal gun owner sitting in front of his child, and his girlfriend live-streamed the aftermath, and the NRA didn’t say a drat thing.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember when they murdered an elementary school kid because he had a toy gun? No warnings, no attempt to deescalate.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Remember that time they started shooting at a random pickup truck 102 times because they thought it might have been Chris Dorner? Remember when it happened twice?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


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Morbid Hound

Dead Reckoning posted:

Yeah, this is actually a really huge problem, but I can't see a way of fixing it without abolishing the jury system, either in law or in practice.

"I was scared" is not a statement of rational belief, "I feared that the other person was about to kill me based on X, Y, and Z is."

One first step would be to follow South Carolina's model and set up an independent statewide law enforcement oversight body that investigates and prosecutes officer misconduct allegations at the local level. I mean, at least Walter Scott was put on trial for murder; most other cop murders don't get that far.

Past that the solutions lie outside the legal system and in the reform of popular culture.

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Dead Reckoning believes guns have more rights than african american children. "Debating" him is useless.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

"Hello 911 I need an ambulance" springs to mind

Whoa later someone might argue that this was an admission of guilt and make it a little less believable when the prosecutor acts as the cop's defense counsel and scores a hung jury, is human life really worth that I don't think so.

Even worse, to do that the cop would have to feel sad that someone was shot and want to help, do you want sad cops of course you don't or MS-13 will win

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

"Hello 911 I need an ambulance" springs to mind

Yeah the often under discussed part of this is how often cops leave people to bleed out after the shoot them.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

VitalSigns posted:

Oh well that's all right then, now I feel much bet—
*is drowned out by the sound of years of you insisting how it's oh-so-rational to pull up and immediately open fire on a child sitting in a park, or fire blindly into the dark at a bump in the night, or shoot people lying on the ground with their hands in the air, or fire into a crowd of people, or into the back of a fleeing man, or at a man shopping for a gun in a store that sells guns in an open carry state, or give nickel rides which are necessary to protect blue lives because [ERROR:file missing], and every other absurd egregious trigger-happy circumstance*
[citation needed]

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

"Hello 911 I need an ambulance" springs to mind
The officer did call for an ambulance, but apparently also telling the wounded man to calm down means that he for sure did it just to get his murder on.

Megaman's Jockstrap
Jul 16, 2000

What a horrible thread to have a post.
In my hometown some dude recently had a psychotic break, went to his kid's elementary school, punched some administrator in the face and took an old teacher hostage.

The police bust in 7 hours later and killed him.

He didn't have a weapon.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Dead Reckoning posting is making me nervous, it would only be a reasonable precaution to have him permaed, such life or death decisions have to be made in a split second.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Dead Reckoning posted:

[citation needed]

Well helldumping isn't allowed, so explain in your own words why Tamir Rice, Daniel Shaver, etc deserved to die and/or why Charles Kinsey deserved to bleed out without medical aid

Hieronymous Alloy
Jan 30, 2009


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Morbid Hound

Dead Reckoning posted:

[citation needed]
The officer did call for an ambulance, but apparently also telling the wounded man to calm down means that he for sure did it just to get his murder on.

Which specific murder on are you talking about? If it's that goddam simon-says shooting yeaaah I'm not interested in a defense of that.

I was mostly thinking of Walter Scott where yeah that didn't happen.

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Trabisnikof posted:

lol see all DR can do is get indignant I said the cops were scared rather than saying the cops "claimed to have a rational fear for their life for a split second"
You specifically claimed that the officer's fear did not have to be rational.

Trabisnikof posted:

They don't need the fear to be rational.
This is not true.

Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer

VitalSigns posted:

Well helldumping isn't allowed, so explain in your own words why Tamir Rice, Daniel Shaver, etc deserved to die and/or why Charles Kinsey deserved to bleed out without medical aid

Tamir Rice was definitely the most dangerous and hardened criminal in America, they just had no choice.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

It is de facto true because people like you defend every shooting no matter how irrational and unreasonable the fear

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

VitalSigns posted:

Well helldumping isn't allowed, so explain in your own words why Tamir Rice, Daniel Shaver, etc deserved to die and/or why Charles Kinsey deserved to bleed out without medical aid

It isn't helldumping to talk about DR's fetish of guns and cops and death of minorities and wanting to be the cop who fires the gun to kill minorities.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Which specific murder on are you talking about? If it's that goddam simon-says shooting yeaaah I'm not interested in a defense of that.

I was mostly thinking of Walter Scott where yeah that didn't happen.
Aquoness Cathery, which is what started this particular round of, "actually everything the police do is murder" and which I assumed everyone else was talking about.

Azhais
Feb 5, 2007
Switchblade Switcharoo
https://twitter.com/deray/status/957682911016300545

Was this posted yet he asks, desperate for a distraction from 1000 pages of cop chat

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

VitalSigns posted:

Charles Kinsey

The cop that was in charge that day, got paid $130,000 and didn't have to work for over a year. So he's suing the city for $5M for discrimination because they tried to fire him:

quote:

It’s a standoff that has cost North Miami taxpayers close to $175,000, left the city with one less senior police officer, and remains a sticking point for a city trying to move past a controversial police shooting.

And now, 16 months after behavioral specialist Charles Kinsey was shot lying flat on his back with his hands in the air while trying to protect his severely autistic patient, it’s finally got a legal name: Police Cmdr. Emile Hollant vs. the city of North Miami.

Hollant, in charge of a chaotic July 2016 shooting that put the city in an unwanted national spotlight, hasn’t worked a single day since. Yet he hasn’t lost a paycheck or any benefits, either. The city, wading through investigations and trying to avoid a lawsuit, never fired him. Hollant, expecting a legal settlement, has refused to quit.

Now, trying to force the city’s hand, Hollant on Friday filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding $5 million in compensatory damages and claiming the city has violated his civil rights, inflicted emotional distress and is punishing him for a being a whistle-blower, among other things.

(http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/north-miami/article185297983.html)



A reminder for those who can't keep the people shot by cops straight:

quote:

It was a late afternoon on July 18 of last year when a severely autistic man with an IQ of 40 named Arnaldo Rios walked out of a North Miami facility that treats the mentally disabled, named MACtown. He wandered a few blocks, then sat down in the middle of the road.

A passing motorist, concerned that Rios might harm himself, called 911. By the time police arrived, Rios’ behavior specialist, Charles Kinsey, had found him and was by his side. The police arrived and believing that a silver toy truck held by Rios was a gun, ordered both men to the ground.

The next few minutes created one of the iconic pictures of the year, changed the lives of two men forever and threw a city and its police department into disarray.

On the ground, Kinsey, wearing dark shorts and a bright yellow shirt, obeyed the command and raised his hands up in the air while on his back. On a cellphone video taken just before the shooting, you can clearly hear Kinsey telling Rios to lie down and begging officers not to shoot because Rios was holding a toy and couldn’t understand them.

His hands and arms remained in the air the entire time.

Still, Rios, unable to understand the command, remained seated upright and continued to fiddle with the truck. Jonathan Aledda, a department sharpshooter, opened fire. One of the bullets struck Kinsey in the leg. Police said they were aiming at Rios, whose truck they believed was a gun.

Hollant, the on-scene commander, said he missed the shooting because he went back to his patrol car to retrieve binoculars to get a closer look at what Rios was holding. North Miami administrators didn’t believe him. Hollant would later criticize the department for having its SWAT commander investigate one of his own men.

Hollant was suspended for a week, then placed on administrative leave with full pay and benefits. Investigations into Hollant’s actions by the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, concluded in August that Hollant was telling the truth.

(also includes a reminder why you never call the cops)


Also the shooter still hasn't had a trial afaik.

Trabisnikof fucked around with this message at 00:14 on Jan 30, 2018

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Azhais posted:

https://twitter.com/deray/status/957682911016300545

Was this posted yet he asks, desperate for a distraction from 1000 pages of cop chat

:dogbutton: quite a slip up there fatty

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Wow that's shameless, but I'm sure he had to sue the city to pay him for his manslaughter attempt on Kinsey or it would be an admission of wrongdoing, really there's nothing a cop can do that will please D&D

Dead Reckoning
Sep 13, 2011

VitalSigns posted:

Well helldumping isn't allowed, so explain in your own words why Tamir Rice, Daniel Shaver, etc deserved to die
Deserve has nothing to do with it. The police aren't permitted to kill someone because they "deserve" it, and whether on not someone "deserves" to live has no bearing on whether or not their death was a criminal act. (Except maybe in Texas.)

Trabisnikof posted:

The cop that was in charge that day, got paid $130,000 and didn't have to work for over a year. So he's suing the city for $5M for discrimination because they tried to fire him:

A reminder for those who can't keep the people shot by cops straight:

(also includes a reminder why you never call the cops)

Also the shooter still hasn't had a trial afaik.
Hollant didn't pull the trigger though. As the article points out, he's trying to force the city to poo poo or get off the pot on the question of firing him. The shooter, Johnathan Aledda, was arrested in 2017 and is awaiting trial.

Yardbomb
Jul 11, 2011

What's with the eh... bretonnian dance, sir?

Feast upon my stool DR.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

I wonder what excuses we’ll hear for the cops arresting that 7 year old for punching his teacher and pulling her hair.

Will it be “beep boop cops are law robots and had to arrest a 7 yr old, age is no excuse”

Or will we get the classic “this 7 yr old is a threat to society who must be handcuffed and perp walked”

Or maybe a boring “don’t question authority, know your place”




At least they didn’t shoot the kid this time.

GlyphGryph
Jun 23, 2013

Down came the glitches and burned us in ditches and we slept after eating our dead.
Oh hey looks like the dems were retroactively made morons, yet again in a completely predictable way, over the sanctions agreement on Iran/Russia!

Just keep trying to kick that football, Schumer, just keep doing it.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Dead Reckoning posted:

Deserve has nothing to do with it. The police aren't permitted to kill someone because they "deserve" it, and whether on not someone "deserves" to live has no bearing on whether or not their death was a criminal act. (Except maybe in Texas.)

Point being that you (and the US justice system generally) routinely defend unreasonable use of force, like a cop driving his car straight toward a little kid as if he's about to run him down, then gunning him down when he jumps in fear.

And then lying on the report because even the cop knew he had no reason to execute a little boy and had to make one up.

Because if you startle someone by acting like a lunatic it's now a """""reasonable""""" cause to fear for your life, in other words the de facto standard really is "did the cop feel scared or at least say so afterwards".

VitalSigns fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Jan 30, 2018

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Communist Zombie
Nov 1, 2011

Lightning Knight posted:

Remember that time they shot the black guy trying to protect an autistic man, when the black guy was on his back with his hands up begging for their lives?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Also remember that when he got shot the black guy asked "Why?" to which the cop said "I don't know." not even it was an accident or something, but that he purposefully fired it for no reason.

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